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We examined if germination and seedling emergence of species from the soil seed bank of mesic grassland in South Africa differed in their response to smoke or heat treatments alone or combined. Soil seed bank samples taken from 0 to 5 cm depth of the topsoil were treated with…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, biomass, forbs, grasses, mesic soils, plant growth, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, Asteraceae, Centella asiatica, Poaceae, Themeda triandra, South Africa, Africa, fire management, range management, soil management, smoke management, grasslands, biomass, fire-associated cues, growth indicators, seedling growth, Themeda triandra Forssk
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, computer program, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, fuel load, duff, moisture regimes, fire intensity
Soil seed banks are an important source of new individuals for many plant populations and contribute to future genetic variability. In general, the size and persistence of soil seed banks is predicted to be greater where growth occurs in unpredictable pulses, where opportunities…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, national parks, precipitation, seed dormancy, seed germination, statistical analysis, Tanzania, Africa, fire management, forest management, savannas
At the end of August 2009, wild fires ravaged the north-eastern fringes of Athens destroying invaluable forest wealth of the Greek capital. In this work, the impact of these fires on the air quality of Athens and surface radiation levels is examined. Satellite imagery, smoke…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, fire frequency, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, Greece, Europe, fire management, smoke management, pollution, biomass burning, aerosol, photochemistry, radiation
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes in its aims the minimisation of unintentional releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF) and dioxin like PCB (dl-PCB) to the environment. Development and implementation of policies…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, ash, pollution, toxicity, fire management, forest management, smoke management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, sugarcane burning, forest fires, biomass burning
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, light wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, high wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire
The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and…
Person: Lata
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, smoke exposure, germination, plant growth, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, Linum lewisii, Penstemon barbatus
Problem statement: Forest fires are especially frequent around the Mediterranean Sea basin in the summer period and might be able to release naturally-occurring and man-made radionuclides from plant biomass and inject them into the atmosphere. The impact of this radioactivity on…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: radionuclides, polonium, Mediterranean, radioactivity, forest fires, atmospheric deposition, PM - particulate matter, cigarettes
Wildland fire is an important component to ecological health in the Sierra Nevada. It is essential to understand smoke impacts from full suppression policy that has produced a smoke averse public if this natural process is restored to the landscape. Smoke is easily visible and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, air quality, wildfires, fire management, fine particulate matter, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, human health, policy, managed fire, managed wildfire
Estimates of greenhouse gases and particulate emissions are made with a high spatiotemporal resolution from the Kilmore East fire in Victoria, Australia, which burnt approximately 100,000 ha over a 12 h period. Altogether, 10,175 Gigagrams (Gg) of CO2 equivalent (CO2‐e)…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Black Saturday, algorithms, greenhouse gases, PM - particulate matter, particulate emissions, uncertainty analysis
The production of pyrogenic carbon (PyC; a continuum of organic carbon (C) ranging from partially charred biomass and charcoal to soot) is a widely acknowledged C sink, with the latest estimates indicating that ~ 50% of the PyC produced by vegetation fires potentially sequesters…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, charcoal, organic matter, fire management, biochar, black carbon, carbon accounting, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, charcoal, DOC - dissolved organic carbon, erosion, PyOM - pyrogenic organic matter, wildfire, dissolved black carbon, SOM - soil organic matter, forest soils, boreal forest, climate change, macroscopic charcoal, temperate forest, Marine-Sediments, emission factors, Fresh Charcoal
A receptor modelling study was performed to identify source categories and their contributions to the PM10 total mass at the Cape Verde archipelago. Trajectory statistical methods were also used to characterize the main atmospheric circulation patterns causing the transport of…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Africa, Algeria, aerosols, air quality, fire management, smoke management, Cape Verde, mineral dust, Sahara, source apportionment, Trajectory Statistical Methods
Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations, smoke effects, wildfires, climate change, health factors, fire management, wildfire, Fire-Adaptive Communities, fire management, climate change, Smoke and Health
Impact of the New South Wales fires during October 2013 on regional air quality in eastern Australia
Smoke plumes from fires contain atmospheric pollutants that can be transported to populated areas and effect regional air quality. In this paper, the characteristics and impact of the fire plumes from a major fire event that occurred in October 2013 (17-26) in the New South…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Hazard and Risk, Fire Effects, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, New South Wales, air quality, pollution, fire management, forest management, smoke management, air quality, bushfires, Regional Model, Sydney Region, injection height, Ftir Spectrometer, emission factors, Transform Infrared-Spectroscopy, biomass burning emissions, trace gases, particulate matter, vegetation fires, pollution, wildfires, aerosols, forest
Fire plays an increasingly significant role in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and impacting on biodiversity. Emerging research shows the potential role of Indigenous land-use practices for controlling deforestation and reducing…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, South America, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, savannas, tropical forests, Indigenous fire management, Community Owned Solutions, Policy-Making, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana
Prescribed burnings are conducted in Queensland each year from August until November aiming to decrease the impact of bushfire hazards and maintain the health of vegetation. This study reports chemical characteristics of the ambient aerosol, with a focus on source apportionment…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Australia, Queensland, aerosols, air quality, hydrocarbons, fire management, forest management, air quality, biomass burning, Organic Aerosol, Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, source apportionment, positive matrix factorization, Submicron Organic Aerosols, biomass burning emissions, Factor-Analytic Models, Mass-Spectrometer Data, source apportionment, Multilinear Engine, Urban Air, Secondary, components